Corner Gas is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt.
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20 Facts About Corner Gas
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Corner Gas received six Gemini Awards, and was nominated almost 70 times for various awards.
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Corner Gas originally developed the storyline for CTV and The Comedy Network.
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Corner Gas can be verifiably called the most successful of these shows.
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Each episode of Corner Gas is written following a specific formula: two or three storylines are presented in each show.
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Corner Gas is the only gas station for 60 kilometres in any direction .
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Two successive sitting prime ministers, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper, made cameo appearances; Corner Gas is the only fictional sitcom in which sitting prime ministers have appeared.
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Corner Gas appears three times: twice to poke fun at Sweden and once to almost get hit by a thrown newspaper during the appropriately named "Ruby Newsday".
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Corner Gas manages to out-chat Lacey while talking about cats during the same episode.
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Corner Gas calls in to Davis's jazz radio program, requesting a song from Michael Buble.
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Corner Gas discovered this trivia while researching information for a history plaque.
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However, by 2016, the Ruby and Corner Gas sets had fallen into disrepair and, due to being built on a bog, had begun to sink and were declared unsafe.
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Wullerton is first shown onscreen in Corner Gas: The Movie, as for the reason Dog River residents hate it so much: Wullerton is a creepy, eerily Stepford Wives-ish town where everyone is excessively nice and clean-cut, which tends to scare any visitors from Dog River.
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In 2006, Corner Gas was the only Canadian-made top-20 TV show in all of Canada, the rest being American imports.
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Corner Gas was syndicated to WGN America by Multi-Platform Distribution Company, which acquired the American distribution rights for broadcast stations and cable channels.
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In late September 2004, to promote the start of the second season, the cast members of Corner Gas travelled to cities across Canada where they pumped gas at local service stations for the day .
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In 2005, Corner Gas partnered with The Comedy Network to host a contest called Comic Genius.
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Corner Gas has spawned a merchandising business, with hundreds of retail items, sold-out live touring productions, and best-selling DVDs.
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Corner Gas has won a variety of awards since it debuted as a series January 2004 including nine Canadian Comedy Awards and six Gemini Awards.
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Corner Gas received two awards at the 7th Canadian Comedy Awards.
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